That made me laugh.
I wonder if this is where Neal Stephenson got the idea for Seveneves which has the opening line
"The moon blew up with no warning and with no apparent reason."
As it's currently structured there are three objections.
1. We couldn't do it.
2. It would have disastrous side effects.
3. It wouldn't fix the problem you're trying to solve, and it would in fact make it worse.
> And if it helps, he made it Over fifty years later and nobody thinks about nuking the moon very often anymore. Good job, Sagan.
Mission failed, I am now thinking about nuking. A lot. Makes me wish I was a senior DoE officer in the 50s when you could nuke stuff to see what happened when stuff got nuked.
For a man who gained infamy for wanting to blow up the moon, his publications are on relatively boring topics in advanced math.
(it's not important to the story)